Ed Sheeran fan told to buy extra ticket for breastfeeding son

A BRISBANE woman who bought tickets to Ed Sheeran's Brisbane concert at Lang Park has been told she needs to buy an additional ticket if she wants to bring her four-month-old breastfeeding son with her.

Speaking to the ABC, Kirsty McDonald said that she had bought standing tickets to Sheeran's sold out show with her mother and sister-in-law, not thinking she would need to buy an extra ticket for her son, Leni. He was not even yet born when tickets went on sale last year.

However, as the date of the concert approached, she realised she would need to take Leni with her because he has a medical condition that requires her to breastfeed him and she wanted to check that she would be able to take him in a baby carrier.

Kirsty McDonald has been left fuming after event promoter Frontier Touring won't let her take her four-month-old son, Leni, to the Ed Sheeran concert without his own ticket. Picture: Facebook

When she contacted the ticket seller Ticketek, she was told she wouldn't be able to bring him without him having his own ticket.

In their email response to McDonald, they informed her that "There is no free on the knee for this event - all patrons must have a ticket".

It turns out the decision was made by event promoter, Frontier Touring.

They defended the rule citing "safety reasons" as the main motivation, with a spokesman saying, ""Part of the reason that we require people to have a ticket is knowing exactly how many people are in the venue".